Bøger af Chris Kelso

The Director has just completed his magnum opus, going to extraordinary lengths with people's lives and money to make the film he believes will be one of the first significant works in the Slave State's cinematic cannon. Everyone anticipates Klopp to be a major success-but the Writer has something else in mind... 'A masterpiece.' -Seb Doubinsky * * * 'Someday soon people are going to be naming him as one of their own influences. He's worth checking out.' -INTERZONE magazine * * * 'Truly excellent prose!' -Albedo One * * * 'Reading Kelso is like sticking your head in a blender but retaining consciousness: a joy ride.' -Fur-Lined Ghetto

On today's excursion: bear witness to a realm where transhuman video store-clerks can project their souls at will. Occult Detectives get lost in Lagos. Or simply hop aboard a writers retreat on the good ship, Zarathustra.There's a new vista for everyone.We hope you enjoy the view.(cover design by Adrian Baldwin; cover image by Alan M. Clark)

..".part-time hitman/ exterminator, Ignius Ellis's dream is to buy a candy-apple red Nova Supreme. In the process of trying to earn enough cash to make his dream come true he gets sucked into the rough world of Visitacion Valley, SF. When the tenants in his apartment complex reveal their various extracurricular activities this take an even more bizarre twist and Ellis soon becomes acquainted with the nightmarish Slave State dimension..."

Everyone gets their message through sometime. Dan Smear is on the run. It won't be long until the Slave State finds him and makes him work in a forced labour enclave for the duration of his pathetic little life. But Smear doesn't know that he has another very real threat in keen pursuit - Denny Carr, the boy from Shell County who just brutally murdered his own father and who now wants bloody vengeance on Smear. Meanwhile Mr M is working as a covert agent for the Slave State and with the promise of a starring role in the hottest new soap opera, he's dedicated to the cause... You can't run away from the Slave State...

The Slave State: A place where dogs tire of their lovesick masters and compose novels for benign publishers. A place where love and murder are equally important to the development of young men. A place where everyone is a slave to their minds and their hearts. From one of literature's most daring writers, Chris Kelso invites you to explore his mind-bending universe with nine short stories-a collection that challenges the boundaries of genre and the limits of the heart.

"Just when you think Kelso has taken you as far as he can, he proves you wrong, setting off in a bold new direction." ¿¿-¿John Langan, author of The Fisherman"Lyrical, intelligent and deeply astute" ¿¿-¿Laura Mauro, Black StaticInterrogating the Abyss is the first volume in the collected interviews, essays, and fictions of Chris Kelso. It's an exploration of darkness and a dissection of human relationships and obsession, featuring conversations with writers such as Dennis Cooper and Matthew Stokoe, and culminating in Voidness, ten sessions of psychic intervention by some of literature's most compelling storytellers.

From British Fantasy Award-nominated author Chris Kelso comes the DREGS trilogy, comprising three installments: Shrapnel Apartments Unger House Radicals and Ritual America in a transgressive odyssey that will leave you dazzled, fascinated and shocked in equal measure.

"People make the comparison to Burroughs, Bukowski, Dick and Trocci with Chris's work and they're fair. But there are so many other influences here, in deft interplay. Some writers wear their influences on their sleeves-and some, such as Chris Kelso, juggle with those influences, and weave them into a tapestry with a larger purpose than mere homage." -Edward Morris, 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee

Juan wakes up in the racist town of Moosejaw after suffering a near fatal snake bite. As he battles for the right to live he begins experiencing vivid nightmares of a symbiotic dream-twin who seems determined to take over complete control of Juan's existence. 'Moosejaw Frontier' is a terrifying journey through the various plateaus of reality, fiction, and one man's intrinsic desire to become more than just a minor character...

Hollywood icon Apollo Calloway has woken up in the unlikeliest of places - rural Ayrshire. A leader of the estate or a scapegoat of fate, Apollo prepares for his ultimate performance...Praise for Chris Kelso:';Someday soon people are going to be naming him as one of their own influences. He's worth checking out.' INTERZONE magazine';His writing is transgressive, erudite, shocking.' Mary Turzillo, NEBULA winner';Will Self meets Chuck Palahniuk' Former People magazinePraise for Jim Agpalza:Jim Agpalzas art is 100% pure concentrated aggro. Disturbingly terrific. - Seb Doubinsky, author of The Babylonian Trilogy';Agpalza's art and Kelso's writing come together for a definitive weird experience. Genuine underground magic.' Garrett Cook, author of A God of Hungry Walls

'Dada Hue, dada Tza...surreal grandeur from every corner of Europe's sunken wens. Dark and absurd fiction that penetrates the subcutaneous fat of our psychosphere - writing that curves and bends the branches of the Pluplusch. Welcome to dada bourgeoisie, honoured poets and fictionists, who are always writing with words but never writing the word itself....' Feat: Joe Ambrose, Rhys Hughes, Neil Williamson, Seb Doubinsky, Krsysztof Dabrowski, Claude Pélieu, Achilleas Kyriakidis, John McNee, Lee Kwo, Mike Jansen, Mary Beach, Matthew Bialer, Charles Plymell, William Burroughs, Love Kolle,m Mike Kazepis, Raf De Bie, Gio Clairval, Gabino Iglesias, Gerard Malanga, Ole Wesenberg Nielsen, Michael Faun, Michael McAloran, Adam Millard, Terence-Jaiden David Wray, Andrew Coulthard,S.Clay Wilson, Wallace Berman, Scott Coubrough, Konstantine Paradias, George Cotronis, Ginger Eades, Brion Gysin, Gerard Malanga, Ralph.W.Ackerman, Charlotte Baker, Rob Harris, Preston Grassmann, Darren Rae and Joel Hubaut